[PSYC 233] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (49 pages long!)
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Metatheory: a set of orienting assumptions within which theories are devised (the orienting assumptions are more general than the assumptions of a certain theory). 7 perspectives: dispositional, biological, psychoanalytic, neoanalytic, learning, phenomenological, and cognitive self-regulation. Dispositional: based on the assumption that people have stable qualities they display across situations (deeply embedded traits- permanent traits make up human nature). Some theories state disposition causes motive, which in turn causes behaviour. Biological: personality has a genetic basis: dispositions are inherited/ held an evolutionary purpose. The other version is that the hormones and nervous system control the person you become. Psychoanalytic: personality is a set of internal forces that compete/conflict; the pressures from within cause personality (freud) Neoanalytic: derive from psychoanalytic, but focus on the development of the ego and the importance of social relationships in personality (lifelong development) Learning: change, not consistency is paramount; behaviour results from experience. Defines personality as the sum of experience til present point in time.
